it is funny to read this stuff as someone with a historical interest in the 1990s, a decade that began with one of the worst economic dislocations of the post-war era and was marked by genocide, catastrophic terrorist attacks, a resurgence of virulent racism, and fears of technological dislocation

i actually don’t think the “average” american millennial man had a nazi phase. it’s not some boys will be boys shit. this makes me side eye you and your friend group, sounds like a personal problem

a troubling trend: when my mother's face is behind her hands, it no longer exists. yet when she moves her hands, her face is born anew

Dinosaurs Eating The CEO (2013) by John Brosio

Not sure everyone is prepared for just how much Platner's Nazi tattoo is gonna give the right ammo for the 6 years he's in office. Don't say you weren't warned when your favorite big papers (in addition to every elected R) spend every day telling Dems to shut up about Nazis because of it.

This is interesting because it challenges two widely held political assumptions: 1) that people love it when everything at the supermarket is at least $8.99 and 2) that the easiest way to win voters over is to go on TV every day and say that you need to build a big event space or you'll die.

FDR’s Fireside chat on March 9, 1937 explaining his proposal to expand the Supreme Court stands up surprisingly well. “We have reached the point as a nation where we must take action to save the Constitution from the Court and the Court from itself.”/1

The indictment is absolute soup. Lab leakers have completely given up on proving their main contention and are now just flailing around looking for any rule violation or procedural misstep that makes it look like a cover-up happened. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/forme...

The lab leak continues to be one of the most worrying cases of mass conspiratorial thinking in America. Zero evidence for it, but the right is frothing at the mouth to imprison anyone even remotely involved with COVID origins research and the center still thinks it's important to ask questions.

I feel like this shit breaks my brain but literally what else are your politics BUT an exercise in your interpretation of social good and your morality - telling people to set aside values when voting feels like a farcical take. Which values are we aligning around, then? Any?

We could literally legislate this out of existence.

I have spent my entire career listening to FedSoc types complain about liberal “activist judges” who “legislate from the bench,” and none of them are going to say a single blessed thing about Sam Alito rewriting the Voting Rights Act to say what he thinks Congress ought to have said

I know it's sort of a side point here, but I'll also just mention that it was considered a key plank of the Trump/MAGA platform that merely asking platforms to deal with "hate" on their platform was one of the greatest threats to free speech in history. Did no one tell Lawler?

nazi demons fleeing back down there again. time still working on 100 year cycle. we are going to get another chubby checker by 2060 and he is going to do such a twist

Waymo defenders will always tell you that the cars are much safer but they'll tell you that in the same breath where they describe it behaving in an unsafe/very obstructive way. "They're safer, but also I see them blocking traffic to the point where the fire department needs to clear them"

Palmer Eldritch is such a heater and it's PKD at his highest speed. He predicts climate change so bad people are trapped inside during the day. The drug (Can-D) ends up getting threatened by one that requires less input (Chew-Z) but which further blurs the line between reality and fiction.

No one wants this. People do not want hyperspecific individualized stories only they engage with. People want the shared experience of being told a story by a human and engaging with other people who also experienced that story. People want the social aspect of storytelling.

I’m old enough to know when Dems had the chance to fortify the Voting Rights Act—they blinked! Their support for Black voters was always more performative than a priority. Now, SCOTUS & Trump’s continued gutting of the law won't just harm Black voters—it'll dismantle voting rights for all American.🤦🏿‍♂️

Kagan is describing a judicial coup

is there any better metaphor for the democratic party than an old man on his deathbed trying to impede progress

Women will make fun of guys for using 3-in-1 shampoo or whatever and then see nothing wrong with going to an ear, nose and throat specialist

Really not a lot matches the sense of absolute terror and panic you feel when you're talking to literal engineers and you realize they have no idea how AI actually works

I might go and do some light screaming into the abyss.

She's mad she was wrong, she's not even mad about the outcome. They don't care what happens, they just want to be "right" and hurt people and get pissy when the game doesn't go their way. MAGA in a nutshell.

i know we all know this but goddamn i'm so sick of all these fucking people that will have no problem calling all Somalis low IQ being like "I can't believe he's the same guy he was in his first term. I can't believe he's so racist." We should hunt these people for sport.

It's been clear for a hot minute an anti-autism diagnosis campaign is in the works but I am truly stunned they are literally just going for the Detransitioner playbook

Disqualifying thehill.com/homenews/hou...

There are objectively worse people in the world (Hitler, Pol Pot, maybe others) but nothing activates a Pavlovian anger response in me more than adult men stealing home run balls from children

“[Trans student athlete] learned that there are adults who consider emotional harm to him and kids like him a price they are happy to pay to score a political point.” This is what bigots claim is also "protecting children" - causing emotional damage to trans kids who just want to exist.

RIP transphobic Tori Amos fans, get wrecked and get out www.pastemagazine.com/music/tori-a...

A charming #Egyptian figurine of a hedgehog, made of faience, dating ca 1900 BC, from Thebes, #Egypt. The Egyptians associated hedgehogs with rebirth. On display at Neues Museum Berlin 📷 me 🏺

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We murdered three more people in a boat today

Actually kind of bonkers that emergency alerts here link you to tweets. I got a silver alert just now and I gotta read a tweet to find out if I have seen the elderly woman who is missing

This is why it's important authors read a lot, Murakami has no idea this has been done already

This actually would piss me off enough to consider not watching any more Star Wars. Absolutely no Star Wars fan is clambering for more Cara fucking Dune. The ONLY (and I mean ONLY) reason to do this is to signal to culture war chuds that they won.

Filoni is such a fucking hack, man. It’s such a small thing because he’s the boss now but I love how much it bothered him that Andor got called “the good Star Wars show”.

The people who force us to live in a violent country really thought they wouldn't have to live in a violent country along with us. They thought other people would do the dying for them. When one of them catches one of the strays they put in the air to catch us, what are we supposed to do but shrug.

The Art of Leonard J. Koscianski

running to the Nazi website to complain that people were being mean to you for hitting the red carpet at Nazi Prom

this is the same woman who went crying to the police when someone knocked her phone out of her hand because she wouldn’t stop filming the bleeding victims of the charlottesville car attack. on the scene of a mass casualty incident, feet away from a woman’s dead body, it was all about her.

Some people want the world to be a certain way and then get upset when their dreams come true

We are gonna have to circle back to this.

I'm sorry but I think it's kind of funny that we've all reached "Yeah I guess someone tried to get him again whatever"

I actually think it's bad for the government to be surveilling its citizens inside their private vehicles, regardless of what veneer of legitimacy you try to put on top of it

"What you call being whimsical is what other people call being a menace to society" received a high compliment just now lads